Game Thread PLAYOFFS: ROUND 1, GAME 3: NUGGETS @ BLAZERS - MAY 27, 2021 - THURSDAY, 7:30, NBATV & NBCSNW

I want blood for the rest of the series

 

They had their fun. No more.

 

game 2 was terry stotts basketball at its finest, keep playin like that and you wont stay in the playoffs for much longer

mike malone adjusted for the game 2 and i dont believe terry stotts will adjust for the game 3

instead, he will most likely run the same shit and hope we make our shots and denver misses theirs, that will probably be the game plan for the next game

 

Time for the Home Cookin.

 

One thing is for sure - those scrub guards aren't going to be able to get away with all the crap they did last night with a Moda crowd screaming about it.

 

You can't blame coach for all the times Portland passed the ball to Nuggets.

 

Yes some of you think we more talent but the talent level is not that far apart. The reason I said Denver in 6 is not the talent level is the way we play vs how they play. It's the how the teams are put together too. They have multiple players that create there own shot vs we got 3 players that create out there the rest of the players need to get someone else set them up for a shot. Defensely they don't have a rim protector but want they got players that can stay in front of there player and they make more difficult drive by them then they do our premeter defenders. We are not great on ball defenders period we got couple guys are decent off the ball defenders. But under Stotts our defense never was type a team that actually got after it and when we did get active the coach accuse a player going rogue. This is just as much olshey fault as it's Stotts he is the one that puts this team together but does gets players that fits in Stotts system maybe. Might be a good reason to go away from this coach. But hopefully I see more energy in front of actually home crowd. This might help Nurk out because he likes to play to the crowd.

 

Some people in don't see that way though.

 

Hopefully that will motivate us.

 

Thank god Denver isn’t healthy

 

things like this really piss me off, just look at this horrible possession by dame

Spoiler: dame misses wide open nurk on the roll who can look to score or find wide open powell in the corner

Spoiler: dame chooses to play one on one against gordon and cant find a good look

Spoiler: dame passes the ball to nurk who takes contested 3-pointer

 

I actually kinda wish game 3 was in Denver now.

 

it's early in the series. It's probably safe to say that the Blazers aren't as good against Denver as in game 1, or as bad against Denver as in game 2.

Dame has averaged 38 points and 11.5 assists; shooting 50% on three's, but only 33% on two's. There's little doubt (in my mind at least) his 2 point percentage is due to Denver being allowed to play more physical against him they they would be allowed against Curry, or Harden, or Booker or (pick your guard). We'll see if the Nuggets are allowed to grab, hold, and bump Lillard as much in the Moda as for the rest of the team:





Melo had a really hot 10 minutes; the other 32 minutes he's played he's kind of sucked. Kanter has been a disaster

Nurkic has played relatively well as long as you ignore his game 2 defense on Jokic. Simons has been limited in what he does, but within those limits he has performed extremely well. If he's still shooting 83% from three at the end of the series, Olshey will sign him to a 100M extension this summer

but 3/5 of the starting unit, CJ-Norm-RoCo, have played well below their talent. Portland won't win the series if those guys don't play much better than they have. Dame can't do it all, and Denver is certain to ratchet up their defense on him the rest of the way.

 

Stephen A with big facts about Nurk!!! Glad somebody of national Media said it, 2-8! while Jokic scores 38 on you? Are you kidding me bruh?. And btw it happens to way to often that this dude can't make the easiest shots, yeah he does have a big Impact defensively, but maybe the Blazers should look for another Center who has a Impact on defense and offense. I had to say it sorry